Vatibus Quotes

#1. If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars.
[Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris,
Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Horace

#2. She once watched a documentary and learned that the brain was 2 percent of a human's body weight, and it was a testament to the neck and the spinal cord that it managed to hold the whole thing upright.

Tracy Ewens

#3. Love those who love you back; leave those who think lust is love.

Vinita Kinra

#4. When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Mayank Chhaya

#5. Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune.
A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Noah Webster

#6. A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Brian Setzer

#7. The most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favour.

Alan Moore

#8. Rather than setting goals for the number of yes's you are planning to get each week, you set goals for the number of no's you're going to collect.

Richard Fenton

#9. Energy in the morning, determination at midday, hunger in the evening.

John Katzenbach

#10. Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.

Kenneth Clark

#11. The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It's called the home court advantage.

Randall Wright

#12. I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

Naomi Wolf